Public Media Manager: Open Source, Open Hands:

NCPR Online has long been the beneficiary of the generous folks at The Sweetgrass Foundation. More recently, we received a grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. And, as always, we benefit from the gifts of NCPR listeners. Thanks are nice, but give-back is better. This weekend, NCPR is giving back the primary intellectual fruits of three years labor on the part of our former web manager Bill Haenel, (with some amateur kibbitzing from me--DH) and assistance from the Clarkson Open Source Institute. At the Public Radio News Director's Conference this weekend in Washington, NCPR is unveiling Public Media Manager, a version of the content management software Bill wrote to enter, organize and display our online news. The package, along with some training assistance, is offered free to all public broadcasters under an open-source general public license. Feels pretty good--think we'll do some more.